Ana White’s The Handbuilt Home Book Giveaway

*This giveaway is now closed and winner announced at the bottom of post*

Have you heard yet about the fabulous Ana White’s new book, The Handbuilt Home? I’m SO excited about it and have loved looking it over since it got here. She has me more inspired than ever to BUILD something!

I had the pleasure of being on the same panel with her at the SNAP! conference, and she’s the total package and a complete gem. I am so proud of her success and blown away by her talent.

A little bit about the book: “Forget IKEA hacks and glue guns. Ana White, a young homemaker, is revolutionizing the furniture building industry, designing DIY furniture plans that rival the styles of Pottery Barn and Crate & Barrel and cost 1/10 of the purchase price to make. Using basic tools and hardware store supplies, Ana’s THE HANDBUILT HOME teaches readers how to build everything from bookcases to beds to kid-friendly items and storage solutions, even if they don’t have any woodworking experience. And the best part? Building your own furniture means you can customize it for your home and save thousands of dollars off the cost of buying it. Packed with 34 of Ana’s favorite projects, THE HANDBUILT HOME includes easy-to-follow instructions, costs, time estimates, and plenty of helpful tips guide even the most amateur of carpenters through every project. As Ana likes to say, “If I can build it, so can you!”

I know you will love her book, and I am even including one of her most popular plans to date, The Farmhouse Bench. It’s a free download so enjoy!

And, I am excited I get to give a copy of her book away to one of you!

To enter the giveaway:

Leave a comment on this post and tell me you’re excited to build something.

That’s it. Easy peasy. I’ll choose a winner at the end of the week! :)

Update: The winner is #98, Kim P! Congrats Kim, be looking for an email. :)

I love her work! I just love to have new ideas and choices. I really want to create an upholstered headboard for my hubby and I’s bedroom. I’d LOVE to win this and so glad I ran across this giveaway before I purchased my own. Thx

Want to build a little one’s table and chair set for my grandarlin’! She is 2 and loves to sit at her table. We have a “card” table and chair set. She needs a nice wooden one that Nana can paint the story of Alice in Wonderland for her next tea party! Thanks for the great give-a-ways!!
Stef.

This book is on my Christmas wish list. The only thing so far. I would love to win it. Love the Farmhouse bench, the console table, and the entryway organizer. Lots of ideas to make for gifts for my 4 kids and their families next year.

Echoing some of the similar comments above, it’s going to be a tight Christmas this year and I would love to build some nice gifts for the family this year with how much they have helped me. I’d love to build some shelving units for my mother.

I’ve built one of her bookcases/storage bins, but I’m ready to tackle a farmhouse table. We have a large family and the larger tables are EXPENSIVE! I think the only way I’m getting the table I want is to build it myself.

I love her designs and would love to find a farmhouse table to build and use as a desk in our new office. My husband never seems to have the time to create things, so I’m sure that if Ana can build this stuff, so can I !!

My next Ana project is going to be the fancy x-desk! Ana has inspired me so much. Never did I ever expect to be able to build. In the past two years, since discovering Ana’s blog, I’ve built an entertainment unit, wall mounted bookshelves, a daybed, a king headboard, two night stands and nesting tables. I can relate so much to the title of Ana’s book — because my home is beginning to feel like a hand built home! One last comment; if you ask my son what is my favorite part of Home Depot, he’ll answer, “The wood section!”. And it is very true. :)

It’s official, I’ve hit midlife and I’m having a crisis! I want to create everything I’ve “put off until the kids get bigger”. The kids are officially bigger and I lack the skills to create! Please help me! I think this book is exactly what I need to get started! Thanks!

My boyfriend and I have been in the process of tearing our house apart and renovating from the top down for five years. We have been working from room to room, completing on task at a time with nothing but our hands and a lot of patience to help us through. We are finally to the point where we can begin working on decorating the bedrooms and living rooms, and I am so excited to make our furniture and decorations myself! I have been looking for guides such as this book to help me along!

I have wanted to build something for years but have afraid to take the first step. This book would help me to make the move, not to mention my hubby has just given the go ahead to buy a compound miter saw to help with the installation of our new laminate flooring.

I would be honored to have a copy of Handbuilt Home in my home. I am slowly building up my collection of tools as I learn to build pieces myself. I think this book would be the ultimate hand guide to go with my supplies! I have spent a lot of time trying and not I want to succeed!

I’m so impressed with Ana’s easy DIY designs that makes me want to put my hands on the tools and start creating. My favorite project is the Farmhouse Table out of Pallets that costs only $2, and the shelving inside the closet doors. She’s FANTASTIC!!!

I have two projects I want to tackle immediately – one or two corner china cabinets for my dining room and rehabing an old TV armoire to make it a bar. Then I want to make a headboard for my master bedroom, better shelves for my pantry, finish the tops of the cabinets in the kitchen in our in-law suite and on and on and on…I love Ana’s site and imagine her book is outstanding!

Hello! I am soooo excited to build an outdoor bench. I know we’re coming on to winter here, but I figure if I start now, I might have it ready by spring. Love Ana’s designs! Thanks so much for the giveaway. Blessings!

I would love to be able to give the book to my daughter-in-law. She has built some benches and would love to venture making furniture for their home. She would love this book – and who knows, I may get some furniture out of it also! :)

I would love an opportunity to learn how to build something, just to show my husband I can do it! I’ll probably swing a hammer like he says I pitch a baseball, (“like a girl”), and you know what my response has been and will be? “Well hello, I am one!!!” :)

Gosh, then I’ll have a reason to go to Lowes and buy that pink tool set, pink drill and pink tool belt I’ve had my eye on!!! Wa-hoo!

OMGsh! I want a copy of this book. There are so many things I want to build and having a book like that would be so perfect. Thanks for the opportunity! I am kind of new to your blog and absolutely love everything about it. Just love it!

I am a very new blogger, and look up to all of you for the amazing things you have accomplished. I’m still trying to get a blog set up, which has been a challenge. You’ll have to take my word for it that I’m a much better builder. I am so excited to read Ana White’s book and get started on my first project, she has so inspired me.
I think Ana White should be president! Think of all the homes she could provide for those in need. Then she could rebuild the senate and the legislature. Oh what fun she would have!
Thanks for the opportunity to enter.
Melody

I would love to win this book! I don’t have anything in particular that I need to build, however I would love to read each and every of the 192 pages to learn her ways, techniques, uses of tools, etc. Once I have read the book, I will make a copy of the parts I need, then I will pass the book on as a “pay it forward” to someone else.

Thank you for your blog and all the knowledge and happiness you share!
Jane

Okay, Ana is one of my all-time heroes! I love what she does. I would love to build my two toddlers some customized toddler beds. I would love to win her book. I honestly think I would build everything rather than buy. I love building!

I just LOVE Ana White and her plans. I have already built some shelves from her site. It’s the same shelves the John and Sherry, from Young House Love, had in their first home’s dining room.
I am currently in the middle of redoing my daughters room from a young girl/nursery into a big girl room (long overdue, she’ll be 10 in a few weeks) and have been browing Ana’s site for some storage solutions and insipration.
I would love to win her book, as I just love wood working and building.

I would love to build a desk/work bench attractive enough for the living room, but sturdy and rugged enough for the 37 projects I seem to have going at one time. And I want my 3 year-old daughter to see me do it!

I would love to build something of my own – that has a touch of my own creativity, style and personality.

I have a tool box that my father made. To the casual observer, it’s nothing special, just an open top wooden box with a handle. He passed away in February. It has since been painted and now sits outside the front of our house. This summer I planted petunias in it which billowed up and over the sides. Each time I looked at it I thought of my father.

Hopefully something I make might become a keepsake to one of my children too.

I am a fan of your blog, have enjoyed so many things that you have shared with people on how they can make their home more comfortable and better with little money and some work. Thanks for including and supporting Ana White’s book on furniture making. I am excited about the book and the things that I can make for my home as well as my shop. I also do staging and decorating and a lot of times I need a piece of furniture that costs to much for the client and I am excited that I can make something and give them something they will be proud of also.
Betty Whatley

I LOVE your blog and am a huge fan of Ana’s site. I just saw her shoe cabinet and am in love. It is what I’d most like to build next, as it might solve my latest pain in the neck, what to do with all of those shoes that clutter our entry.

I want to build bookcases in our great room. Why? Well, my 3 girls have enough books to over-take the house (that’s a good thing, I know), but also b/c I want them to learn the soul-deep satisfaction of being CAPABLE to create & BUILD something. To look at something with pride & know it is only there b/c they took the time, the skill, the love, & the effort to do it. I call those true life lessons!

I love building things! My last project was a solid wood queen sized head/foot board and bed frame for my son, next up a new couch for the living room :)
Even though my sons are now 16 and 20, they still call me “Mom the Builder” LOL. This sounds like a great book, I’d love to look it over.

I would love to get a copy of your book for my daughter as a Christmas present! She has a degree in Theater Design and has recently learned how to make stuff with power tools. Since she just graduated and moved out of our house, I’m sure she could put some of your projects and tips to good use! There’s nothing like LEARNING by DOING!

I just wanted to thank you again for hosting this give away.
I received the book today. It’s beautiful and so full of great stuff. I can’t wait to read it cover to cover and try out some of the plans.
Thank you, thank you, thank you!

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